Contributors

Mark Aldridge has been a PL-EN translator since 2000. He earned his degrees in Bristol (1996) and Birmingham, UK (2003), and studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he was awarded an MA degree in 2010. He first took courses in Polish in Kraków in 1996–1997 as part of the EU's Tempus program. He has translated books on history and economics, in addition to guidebooks.Mateusz Antoniuk is a professor of Polish literary studies and the founder and head of the Center for Creativity Research at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His areas of research include textual criticism and the history of modern Polish literature. In 2013, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. His English-language article, “Dying in Nine Ways: Genetic Criticism and the Proliferation of Variants,” has been published in Genetic Criticism in Motion: New Perspectives on Manuscript Studies (2023), edited by Sakari Katajamäki, Veijo Pulkkinen, and Tommi Dunderlin.Paweł Bem is an assistant professor and head of the Center for Philological Research and Scholarly Editing at the Institute of Literary Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He specializes in textual studies and the history of twentieth-century Polish literature. His first book, Dynamika wariantu: Miłosz tekstologicznie, was published in 2017.Anna Bergiel received her MA in Polish literary studies from the Jagiellonian University in Krakόw. She is a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at the University of Bielsko-Biala, working on a dissertation on musical themes and motifs in the poetry of Czesław Miłosz.Marek Bernacki is a professor in the Department of Polish Philology at the University of Bielsko-Biala. He is the author of several books, including Tropienie Miłosza: Hermeneutyczna “bio-grafia” Poety (2019) and Interpretuję: Jestem; Artykuły i szkice krytycznoliterackie (2017–2023) (2023), and editor of Peryferie Miłosza: Nieznane konteksty, glosy, nowe rozpoznania (2020). In 2023, he guest-edited a well-received special issue of The Polish Review, “Lessons from the Archive: Rereading Accounts from and about the Warsaw Ghetto,” that includes his article, “Memory and Reflection: Czesław Miłosz as a Witness to the Holocaust (in Light of Previously Unknown Documents).”Irena Grudzińska Gross emigrated from her native Poland after the unrest of 1968. She received her PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University in 1982 and has taught East European literature and history at several universities. In 2018, she was a Fellow at the Guggenheim Foundation. Her books include The Scar of Revolution: Tocqueville, Custine, and the Romantic Imagination (1995), Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (2009), Golden Harvest (2012; coauthored with Jan T. Gross), and Miłosz i długi cień wojny (2020; expanded edition, 2024).Jack J. B. Hutchens is an English teacher at Plainfield East High School in Plainfield, Illinois. He is the author of Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction: Gender, Nation, Politics (2020), published by Lexington Press.Gerard T. Kapolka received his PhD in Polish literature from the University of Chicago in 1981. He has published three book-length translations, with introductions and notes: The Wedding by Stanisław Wyspiański, Kordian by Juliusz Słowacki, and Polish Fables by Ignacy Krasicki, as well as translations of many shorter works. He has taught Polish, English, and world literatures at several institutions, including St. Mary's College at Orchard Lake, Rutgers University, and the Jagiellonian University in Krakόw. He is currently the associate editor of The Polish Review.Zbigniew Kaźmierczyk is an associate professor in the Department of Literary History and the founder and head of the Laboratory of Ethnogenetic Literature at the University of Gdańsk. He is the author of Dzieło demiurga: Zapis gnostyckiego doświadczenia egzystencji we wczesnej poezji Czesława Miłosza (2011) and coeditor of Adam Mickiewicz i Rosjanie (2019) and Religijność Czesława Miłosza (2020). In addition, he has published more than 200 book chapters and articles in Poland and abroad.David Malcolm is a professor of English at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He is the author of books on Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, and John McGahern and of The British and Irish Short Story Handbook. He coedited The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the British and Irish Short Story and On John Berger: Telling Stories. Currently, he is coediting The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Poetry, 1960–2015. His edition of Hubert Crackanthorpe's Wreckage (1893) was published in 2019 by Edinburgh University Press.Michał Paweł Markowski, the Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature at the University of Illinois in Chicago, is the author of several books on Polish and world literatures, literary theory, and cultural criticism. His recent publications include a trilogy about the political condition of the contemporary humanities—Polityka wrażliwości: Wprowadzenie do humanistyki (2013), Wojny nowoczesnych plemion: Spór o rzeczywistość w epoce populizmu (2019), and Polska, rozkosz, uniwersytet: Opowieść edukacyjna (2021), as well as three volumes of Teksty zebrane, 1988–2023 (vol. 1: Interpretacje, vol. 2: Polityka, vol. 3: Reprezentacje), published between 2023 and 2025.Zuzanna Szatanik is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Bielsko-Biala. Her research interests have so far focused on contemporary Canadian women's writing, gender studies, animal studies, and literature for young adults. Her first book, De-shamed: Feminist Strategies of Transgression; The Case of Lorna Crozier's Poetry, was published in 2011. She is now working on a book about cultural meanings of agoraphobia.Łukasz Tischner is an associate professor and head of the Department of the History of Twentieth-Century Polish Literature at the Jagiellonian University in Krakόw. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Konteksty Kultury. He specializes in the history of twentieth-century Polish literature and the interactions between literature and philosophy/religion. He is the author of Sekrety manichejskich trucizn: Miłosz wobec zła (2001; published in English translation as Miłosz and the Problem of Evil in 2015), Miłosz w krainie odczarowanej (2011), and Gombrowicza milczenie o Bogu (2013), and coeditor of Literatura a religia: Wyzwania epoki świeckiej (2020).Jakob Ziguras is a poet, a translator, and a lapsed philosopher. He has published three books of poetry—Chains of Snow (2013), The Sepia Carousel (2016), and Venetian Mirrors (2024), as well as translations of Polish poetry and prose, including Kaddish: Pages on Tadeusz Kantor by Jan Kott and The Prose Poem as a (Non)Genre by Agnieszka Kluba.

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